Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also uses cartoons, paintings and photographs displayed on a wide screen throughout his lectures, which commonly draw between 150 and 200 students...
...even immortality in the silver screen. "Love Story" could save the famous. Cronin's bar-where generations of Harvard undergraduates consumed lobster and steak dinners for under $2-from demolition in 1960. Cronin's and a 19th century dormitory building eventually made way for Harvard Square's most dominant edifice, the less appealing Holyoke Center...
...panel, Trudeau's narrator introduces Timmy, a tiny dot on the television screen. "While his main preoccupation at this point is cell division," the narrator says of the embryo, "in most respects he's as human as you and I." When he later calls abortions "nothing less than a holocaust," the next panel shows a voice from the White House saying, "Gosh, there's that word again." The strips will appear in the New Republic's June 10 issue. This is the first time since he became a syndicated cartoonist in 1970 that Trudeau has withdrawn his work...
...final shot of Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, another critical favorite. A young wife, her dream of eloping with a movie idol crushed, finds another dream born while gazing raptly at another wonderful picture. For the few privileged moments when Truffaut and Allen occupied center screen, Cannes declared that the film industry is only on loan to the merchants. It belongs, first and finally, to the magicians...
...Deukmejian. Two weekends ago he signed the first legislation in the U.S. allowing simultaneous, two-way closed-circuit television for some children under eleven in molestation cases. The system is designed to separate the accused from the accuser, while allowing each to see and hear the other on TV screens during testimony. Defense attorneys are expected to challenge the new law, citing the Sixth Amendment right of defendants to confront their accusers, whatever their age. The question will be whether confronting the witness through a TV screen satisfies the Constitution...